Dumbing-down America

For those who are interested... understanding issues, all sides, is an
inclusive, never ending process. Education: from The New
Century Dictionary of the English Language (Appleton, Century, Crofts:
New York, 1927):

The drawing out of a person’s innate talents and abilities by
imparting the knowledge of languages, scientific reasoning, history, literature, rhetoric,
etc.—the channels through which those abilities would flourish and serve.
Sir William Berkeley, in 1671, candidly discussed the dumbing-down of
Americans that today would find little disagreement in the uppermost
echelons of government: "I thank God we have not free schools nor
printing, and I hope we shall not have these for hundreds of years, for
learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world,
and printing has divulged them and libels against the government."

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